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Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program and Coastal Program
HabITS Habitat Information Tracking System Branch of Habitat Restoration 703-358-2201 July 2004
Coastal Program Mission: Working with others to protect and restore coastal ecosystems for the benefit of fish, wildlife, and people.
Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program Mission: Working with private landowners to restore fish and wildlife habitat on private lands.
Program Budgets and Projects
Coastal 2004 budget is $9,874,000 with 80 FTEs
Partners 2004 budget is $35,683,000 with 220 FTEs located in all 50 states and Caribbean
Where We are Working Now
Partners for Fish and Wildlife has 50 offices located in each state and territories.
Coastal Program has 16 offices located in 14 states.
What is HabITS?
Habitat Information Tracking System
What is HabITS? (cont.)
Module within the Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS)
Technology
Java, JSP, HTML, XML, Struts, OJB, ArcIMS, ArcSDE, Tomcat, Apache, and Oracle. – Platform independent, MVC architecture, relational data mapping, spatial database and server. – Security compliant. – Open source projects. – Seamless data integration via XML
What is HabITS? (Cont.)
Tracks habitat improvement accomplishments and technical assistance workloads Internet based (“real time”) system Geographically referenced projects Program specific: Partners, Coastal, Florida Gulf Program, Washington State Ecosystem Conservation Project
What is HabITS? (cont.) HabITS tracks contact information, agreement data, accomplishment locations, habitat areas, Partner and Service contributions, T&E species, and habitat monitoring by Office and project.
What is HabITS? (cont.) HabITS provides definitions of habitat and accomplishment types, a data dictionary, user guides, on-line tutorials, and multiple custom query and standard reports.
What Does HabITS Include?
Habitat accomplishments – To the project level – By program – By location – By ownership (private, State, Federal, and tribal lands)
What Does HabITS Include? (cont.) – By habitat type – Special projects (e.g., Congressionally directed efforts) – By cost (Service contribution) – By partner (and partner contribution) – Relevant existing data from other systems
Threatened and Endangered Species System
International Taxonomic Information System
Fisheries and Fish Passage Decision Support System
Technical assistance workloads
Monitoring information
What Does HabITS Include? (cont.)
Interactive map component Links to external data – USGS National Map – TerraServer
Habits Accomplishments Partners for Fish & Wildlife and Coastal Program habitat improvement accomplishments in the United States FY02-04.
Why Do We Need a Tracking System? Inquiries: – – – – –
Director’s office DOI Partners NGO’s Other Federal agencies
– – – – –
Congress White House GAO OMB Service budget office
Why Do We Need a Tracking System? (cont.)
National reporting needs: – GPRA – Budget development and justification – Strategic planning – Regional allocations – Outreach
We MUST account for what we do
GPRA End of Year Reports
HabITS is used to produce Program accomplishment and performance reports.
HabITS Database Snapshot July 28, 2004
•Registered HabITS users:
271
•Total Habitat Improvement projects: •Total Technical Assistance projects:
12,274 4,501
•Total partners:
6,248
•Total accomplishment sites:
23,488
What Does HabITS Do For Us?
Replaces inconsistent reporting methods Encourages data standardization Improves accountability (OIG, OMB concerns) Analytical and predictive tool Reports available in a variety of formats to Field, Regional, and Washington Office
What Does HabITS Do For Us? (cont.) Outreach (images, maps, charts, document storage) Inter-agency and Intra-agency data sharing
How do we share data? Limited custom query data exports (Excel, Oracle, Access, XML) Web services allow real-time data reads and report queries
Challenges: – Technology Overhead – Connectivity – Data structure
Advantages: – Data Synchronization – Data Standards – Reach Common Goals – Infrastructure